English: Black-throated Accentor
Russian: Черногорлая завирушка
Mongolian: Харомруут хайруулдай
German: Schwarzkehlbraunelle
French: Accenteur a gorge noire
Japanese: (Nodoguro-iwahibari)

Body length: 13-14 ½ cm. Breeds in spruce thickets and bushy country, also in deciduous forest, often on upper slopes (Urals). (In C Asia, also found in tall conifer forest in mountain valleys). Very rare vagrant in W Europe, mainly in autumn.

Identification: Like Siberian and Radde’s Accentors, with brown-black crown and broad buff supercilium. Distinguished by black throat, easy to see in breeding plumage but harder with autumn immatures, when broad pale fringes conceal some (rarely, on 1st winter ♀, almost all) of the dark colour. Note that back is dull dark brown (not strongly tinged reddish-brown) with dark spotting, also that warm orange-buff breast contrasts with whiter belly. Breast has some dark feather centres.